Pierdomenico Baccalario

The World Through Your Eyes

Coming of age

From the alien who shared the Sanremo stage with Ghali comes an illustrated book for both children and adults, written with Pierdomenico Baccalario.


An interstellar journey that offers a fresh perspective on Earth, exploring themes like equality, inclusion, and respect.

Rich Ciolino is a curious, unconventional alien who lands on Earth by chance. Through strange encounters and colorful cities, every experience becomes a lesson about our world and himself. In letters to his distant planet, he reflects on friendship, diversity, traditions, and the meaning of belonging.

His meeting with Ghali—a fellow dreamer—changes everything: together, they discover that music is a universal language that transcends all boundaries.

  • With Baccalario’s storytelling and Rich’s innocent (yet insightful) gaze, this is a modern-day Little Prince who invites us to see the world from a different point of view.
  • With a foreword by Ghali.
Publisher: Rizzoli
Target: 8-10
Year: 2024
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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